Nuns to sell Villa-Maria lands
The average age of the last Sisters of Notre-Dame is 90, and they’re preparing to sell the vast piece of land that lies between Westmount and NDG, that their order has owned since 1854.
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walkerp 09:58 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
It sounds like the money for the sale will go to care for the remaining nuns and the rest to a good non-profit, so that’s positive.
Meezly 10:38 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
Rather sad that my first thought about the remaining nuns was whether they had abused any children under their charge.
Kate 11:16 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
It wasn’t an orphanage, at least not in our times, but a rather posh private girls’ school. I knew someone who went there, and while it was prey to the usual snobbery found in schools like that, I never got the sense anyone was abused by the nuns. Not girls with relatively wealthy parents.
Meezly 12:28 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
I probably confused them with the Grey Nuns
https://www.catholicregister.org/item/34990-quebec-religious-orders-face-off-over-abuse-liability
Kate 14:23 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
The overall abuse problem was that nobody wanted to query the church, and that included priests, nuns and brothers doing all kinds of jobs. The Grey Nuns were basically hospital nurses of a time before modern medicine. The CND – the Congregation of Notre Dame – provided school teachers for girls, while the Christian Brothers taught boys. The Clercs of Saint Viateur that used to own the big building on St‑Laurent near de Castelnau provided services to the deaf – and abused them too. And there were other bad situations with orphans and other powerless people.
There were probably abuses in all corners of society where these orders functioned, but an aura of authority and secrecy hung over them and made it difficult to impossible for anyone to report abuses. Only after the Quiet Revolution replaced the church with secular institutions to manage education, health care and social services were questions asked, and – too late for most victims – some restitution given.
(One reason I get irked at seeing anglos blamed for oppression in Quebec is that so much of the oppression was dealt out by the Catholic church and willingly accepted, even welcomed, by most people.)
jeather 15:30 on 2024-04-29 Permalink
Now the abuse problem is that the church can and does still just shuffle abusers around and play games about how a specific diocese has zero money so sorry. The government no longer helps them out so much, at least.
Ian 10:22 on 2024-04-30 Permalink
It’s kind of intersting that both Marianapolis and Villa-Maria were renting from the nuns. Sounds like VM is still working on funding but Marianapolis already bought their property.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10457689/villa-maria-high-school-wont-move/
Joey 13:00 on 2024-04-30 Permalink
So 500 nuns who are on average just shy of 90 years old need are about to sell land worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Let’s generously assume each nun would need $250K to cover her costs for the rest of her life, we’re still talking only $125M… are they really going to spend hundreds of millions on scholarships? What’s missing here?